Edinburgh, City of Festivals
Explore our map and video tour for an insider’s look at some of Edinburgh's festival landmarks and their stories.
Edinburgh Arts Tour
Edinburgh, Scotland's beautiful capital is a mecca for festival-goers. With twelve major festivals each year drawing creatives from over seventy countries, the city offers a huge variety of events that span all art forms, making it the world’s leading festival city.
Edinburgh International Book Festival: meet the authors
In this series of podcasts, recorded at Edinburgh International Book Festival, we speak to the festival director Nick Barley and the authors Alexander McCall Smith and Raja Alem.
Edinburgh: On the page
Edinburgh has a strong claim to be one of Europe’s most significant literary cities. Writer Stuart Kelly gives you a firsthand account of the city’s literary legacy, past and present.
Indian instruments and British beats: Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
Singer-songwriter James Yorkston has long been a stalwart of the Edinburgh music scene—in our podcast we talk to him about the Yorkston/Thorne/Khan project and his debut novel Three Craws.
Behind the scenes at The Lyceum
The Lyceum is one of the city's foremost theatre spaces. Take a look inside.
Memorial to Lost Words by Bani Abidi
Find out more about this Edinburgh Art Festival highlight in our exclusive Q&A with the artist and an interview with the curator Sorcha Carey.
Sanjoy Roy on the magic of Edinburgh's festivals
We have an exclusive interview with Managing Director of Delhi-based Teamwork Arts, talking about his experiences of the Edinburgh festival scene.
Edinburgh welcomes the world
Explore some of our highlights of this year Edinburgh International Festival.
Picks from The Fruitmarket Gallery
Find out more about one of Edinburgh's leading art spaces, The Fruitmarket Gallery, a champion for new artists from Scotland and internationally.
In Focus: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016
Discover what was on offer at the Edinburgh International Film Festival the world's longest continually running film festival in the world.
Deep Time: 350 million years of Edinburgh's history
Find out more about the epic light display on Edinburgh Castle that opened this year’s Edinburgh International Festival.
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